The first build of the Spiceworks 4.5 beta is now available for you to try out. Testing and feedback from you is an integral part of every release cycle and we appreciate the time and effort you put into giving us the feedback. In addition, you'll be sure that the final release is a seamless upgrade for you.

Please read the following posts on information on how the beta program will work. Please be sure to test your favorite 4.0 features as well as the new 4.5 features!

Follow the instructions in the how-to on moving your installation. You will need to manually run the upgrade/migrate for the DB. This will obviously get automated in subsequent Beta releases, but for this first Beta release, it is a manual step. To do this simply open a command prompt and go to your install-dir/bin directory and run “spiceworks.exe migrate”. NOTE: Windows Vista and Windows 7 users running with UAC enabled will need to elevate the command prompt by right clicking the command prompt icon and selecting "Run as administrator" before running the migrate command.

Wow Tabrez. I can't believe you really posted on a Saturday. I bow to your dedication.

I will download this on Monday and play. Andy don't scream, but this might be going straight to production for me too :) I don't have a lot of data in my current install so I'm not super concerned if I lose everything.

Did you do this step from Tabrez's notes after moving your data/db folders over?

To do this simply go to your install-dir/bin directory and run “spiceworks.exe migrate”

For this first beta you have to manually run this command before you can load 4.5 with your 4.1 data. If you did this step and are still having problems, let me know. I would like to find out what is going wrong. There are so many different types of hardware and activities your application could be generating that we haven't encountered in our test environment.

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Wow Tabrez. I can't believe you really posted on a Saturday. I bow to your dedication.

I will download this on Monday and play. Andy don't scream, but this might be going straight to production for me too :) I don't have a lot of data in my current install so I'm not super concerned if I lose everything.

Not only that, but he teleconferenced into SpiceCorps of Central Florida's meeting to give us an "introduction" to the Spiceworks 4.5 Beta.

Just pulled it down. Migrating a copy of production data over to the test VM to play with. Any updates to what WMI pulls in during the scans?

EDIT: So far the migration of our current production data into the test environment went pretty smoothly and things are rather nice so far. First impressions: I like the consolidated extension center. When switching to the Help Desk page with it set to the Open Tickets view, it seems to take just hang briefly (about 20-30 seconds) before sorts the tickets by priority and become responsive.